04 March 2012

Pssst, Progs! He Was A Magnificent Bastard, Not A Murderer. Big Diff!

cornfedbubba writes: "Sorry, Brietbart set the bar as low as it could
go with his unapologetic trashing of Ted Kennedy mere hours after his
death. Which I’m sure none of you condemned.

Stop acting so hurt, hypocrites."

According to Kennedy’s FBI file, he was more than a “special pile of
human excrement.” He met with the Soviets in an attempt to undermine
both the Carter and Reagan administrations. Oh, and there was clear and
convincing evidence of it.

I sought a second opinion, but Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for
comment. Certainly, she deserved better than to be left in a submerged
car to die while a drunk Senator Ted Kennedy ran away to salvage his
political career. She surely didn’t deserve to be written off,
dismissed, excused, etc., as the Left did for decades. I wonder how her
parents felt every time they heard the sanctimonious pontifications
emanating from the Lyin' of the Senate. You? I heard that her father
was grateful that, at least, Teddy Kennedy would never be POTUS.

"Mary Jo wasn’t a right-wing talking point or a negative campaign
slogan. She was a dedicated civil rights activist and political talent
with a bright future — granted, whenever someone dies young, people
sermonize about how he had a “bright future” ahead of him — but she
actually did. She wasn’t afraid to defy convention (28 and unmarried, oh
the horror!) or create her own career path based on her talents. She
lived in Georgetown (where I grew up) and loved the Red Sox (we’ll
forgive her for that). Then she got in a car driven by a 36-year-old
senator with an alcohol problem and a cauldron full of demons, and wound
up a controversial footnote in a dynasty.

We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what
she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most
successful Senate career in history. What we don’t know, as always,
could fill a Metrodome.

Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t
automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving,
aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would
have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the
life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it."

(Evidently, Feminism = Taking one for the men’s team!)

For
a Feminist on the Left to call Mary Jo Kopechne “The Footnote” while
praising the bastard right after he died still makes me want to puke.

When
you turn up a dead, promising, young woman with a “bright future”
associated with Breitbart and then have some right-winger positing that
she might have thought that being drowned by Andrew in a car so that he
could go on to have an illustrative career was worth it, then I’ll
consider the two equivalent.

So,
cry me a bloody river with regards to Ted Kennedy. How many tears did
he shed for Mary Jo? You people excused, overlooked, ignored,
airbrushed and tried to morally equate the dirty deeds of St Teddy of
Chappaquiddick for decades. Neither you, the Democratic Party, nor that
drunk had any shame.